😮#Russian#mobilization: A man shot the head of the draft enlistment office in Ust-Ilimsk, Irkutsk, Russia. Early reports said the military commissar was killed, but witnesses now say he survived.
Here’s the video of the man opening fire in the military recruitment (#mobilization) office in Ust-Ilimsk, Irkutsk, #Russia. The head was reported to have died from his wounds, but other reports say he survived.
(Via @Andrew__Roth)
@Andrew__Roth@taygainfo@InsiderEng 25yo Ruslan Zinin has been arrested for shooting the Irkutsk military commissar. Ruslan, who lives with his grandmother, reportedly said he was very upset after his best friend was mobilized, and he realized that the "partial" #mobilization was false. "They're drafting everyone."
@Andrew__Roth@taygainfo@InsiderEng Ruslan Zinin—young, handsome, everything to live for—if Russia were a normal country. But Putin made war & death Russians' future. This shooting is just the tip of the iceberg. Frustration builds w/ one regime for 22 years. Now that Putin's gone off the deep end, it's exploding.
@Meta 🧵On foiled Russian op targeting Europeans around Russia’s war in Ukraine & the US ahead of the midterms:
In Europe, Russia mostly targeted Germany, France, Italy, Ukraine, UK w/ anti-Ukraine narratives via a sprawling network of 60+ websites impersonating legitimate news orgs.
@Meta#Russia's op began in May. Over 60+ websites IMPERSONATING legitimate news outlets—incl Spiegel, The Guardian, Bild—Russians posted original articles criticizing #Ukraine & Ukrainian refugees, supporting Russia, and arguing Western sanctions on Russia would backfire. per @Meta
Russia’s Theater of the Absurd Propaganda at the UN today was sparsely attended. Seems few are interested in listening to war criminal Lavrov justify genocide in Ukraine.
😂Lavrov's flip-the-script propaganda diatribe at the UN was peak absurd Russia. He said the US forced countries to join in anti-Russia sanctions—w/o giving them the "freedom of choice." "That's not a democracy but dictatorship," and US dictatorship is trying to destroy Russia.🤣
Holier than thou Russian officials love to use the language of democracy, to slam democracies' flaws & to pretend that Russia is more democratic🙄
Isn't Lavrov embarrassed to put on this absurd propaganda show, after his war made🔮clear that Russia is a genocidal criminal state?
Can this be called "voting"?? Russia-installed "election commissioners" accompanied by heavily armed militants go door-to-door to homes of people living under military occupation to collect "ballots."
Russia's sham referendums are a grotesque perversion of a free & fair election.
Russia makes such a mockery of democracy—the core of which is elections, freedom to choose, the dignity choosing gives ppl & the accountability it imposes on govt. Putin's "referendums" remove choice & results are predetermined. Door-to-door armed intimidation completes the sham.
Russia's sham referendums are even more grotesque when you realize Putin's using them to make Ukrainians under military occupation human shields, to intimidate Ukraine from fighting for its land, while making Ukrainians sign off on their own genocide. Evil beyond comprehension.
🤨"Putin promised we’d each get a house and two slaves."— Russian soldiers told villagers in #Balakliya🇺🇦
Most of those liberated in #Kharkiv area villages were elderly, likely unable to flee. They had difficulty talking about the Russian soldiers. Some couldn’t speak w/o tears.
These stories of survivors reveal so much about the poor living conditions in Russia under Putin's kleptocracy.
Russian soldiers were shocked that Ukrainian villages had running water & bathrooms in homes, like in cities. "They said they were going to bring their families here.”
Disturbing trend becomes 'staggeringly common' in Putin's wartime #Russia: @npwcnn reports on the death of #Lukoil Chair Ravil #Maganov—at least the 6th high-profile Russian #energy/#oil executives who Russia says died by suicide cnn.com/videos/world/2…
@npwcnn Lukoil head Ravil Maganov, seen being honored by Putin, died on Thursday after falling from his Moscow hospital window. Suicide, #Russia reported. The energy giant said he died after a severe illness. Lukoil under his leadership came out against the war in Ukraine early in March.
@npwcnn Lukoil's Maganov's death makes him the 6th prominent Russian #oil/gas executive to die from "suicide" in almost as many months.
4 dead execs from Russian state #gas giant Gazprom, currently at the forefront of #Russia's #energy battles with the West since invading #Ukraine.
Hate to see Trump propagandists on @Acosta. They twist language, weaponize ambiguity, conflate words/issues to confuse/sow doubt.
Election denying Chad Wolf went from "There are reports of irregularities, illegalities & fraud," to "Drop boxes were illegal" to "There was fraud"🤢
@Acosta Conflation is a propaganda tactic. Wolf conflated "irregularities"—fuzzy but sounds nefarious—& "illegalities"—bogus arguments that LOST in court! Propagandists pair them, repeat ad nauseam. They're bad-faith interlocutors—not answering Qs but drumming disinformation into brains.
@Acosta Acosta gave Chad Wolf many opportunities to tell the truth. Wolf preferred propaganda & lies. He even discredited the agency he headed, saying DHS CISA only declared the election secure from FOREIGN threats—not voter fraud! Propagandists prove nothing but their lack of integrity.